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osmophile

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
os-mophile
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any organism that is adapted to living in aqueous environments with high solute concentrations (salt, sugar, alcohol), and resisting internal desiccation caused by the osmotic transport of water outside of their cells

Etymology

From osmo- + -phile.

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

osmophiles (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

osmophilic

Questions

What does osmophile mean?
Any organism that is adapted to living in aqueous environments with high solute concentrations (salt, sugar, alcohol), and resisting internal desiccation caused by the osmotic transport of water outside of their cells
Where does osmophile come from?
From osmo- + -phile.

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